A collection of autobiographical stories highlighting Thich Nhat Hanh`s experience and formative years as a novice monk in Vietnam. Vietnamese Buddhist master,...
A large, fully illustrated book of Tibetan protective charms and amulets and tantric symbols reproduced from 230 original woodblocks. Douglas offers a...
Following the critically acclaimed Zen at War, the author here explores the intimate and controversial relationship between Japanese institutional Buddhism and militarism during the...
New revised edition. Thich Nhat Hahn elaborates on the Four Immeasurable Minds of compassion, loving kindness, joy and equanimity as concrete expressions of our...
Winner of the Thomas Cook travel book award for 2002. "His trek through China to Tibet is a beautiful, disturbing read - a new Wild Swans." The Observer. "A tour de force...a powerful...
The Essentials of Indian Philosophy provides a concise, connected account of Indian philosophy, and interpretation and criticism are provided within the limits of...
These essays treat: Zen as the Chinese interpretation of the doctrine of enlightenment, enlightenment and ignorance, the history of Zen in China up to the...
Anne Marie's Da, her father Jimmy the Glaswegian painter and decorator, has always been game for a laugh. So when he first takes up meditation at the Buddhist centre, no one takes him seriously. But as...
A new translation and commentary which aims to give a purer interpretation of the Tao Te Ching, one that is more accurate, while capturing the pattern and harmony of...